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Matches Shipping Crate

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This shipping crate side contained Bird’s Eye brand matches manufactured by the Diamond Match Company. These matches were non-poisonous, double dip strike anywhere safety match. In 1910, the Diamond Match Company patented the first nonpoisonous match (produced without phosphorous), before releasing the patent at the request of President McKinley in 1911 for the “good of mankind.”

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